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The Sun Also Rises

By Ernest Hemingway

Stock Hemingway Narrating CharacterIt was in Europe after the war. We were depressed. We drank a lot. We were still depressed.

THE END

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gatsby

Daisy, I made all this money for you, because I love you.

DaisyI cannot reciprocate, because I represent the American Dream.

Gatsby

Now I must die, because I also represent the American Dream. (Gatsby DIES.)

Nick

I hate New Yorkers.

THE END

Othello

By William Shakespeare

Iago

Your wife’s cheating on you.

Othello

She is? (kills wife) Damn, she wasn’t really.

THE END

Walden

By Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

A truly rich man doesn’t have money but rather courage, truth, and an inner glory that transcends the passiveness of our physical beings. That’s why I’m going to live in the boonies. (Two years later…)

I’m getting the heck out of here and getting my pencil-making job back. Um. But what I said still goes.

THE END

Crime and Punishment

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Raskolnikov

I’m so extraordinary, I can commit crimes. (kills some people)

Sonia

I’m the spiritual side of Raskolnikov.

Porfiry

I’m the intellectual side of Raskolnikov.

RaskolnikovI have reconciled the two sides of my personality, represented so well by Sonia and Porfiry. (confesses)